Patents by Inventor Jeffery Shepherd

Jeffery Shepherd has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240362974
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize funds accessed from a gaming establishment credit system to provide an overdraft protection feature to one or more gaming establishment accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240355169
    Abstract: A system that, responsive to a request to transfer an amount of funds to a gaming device, facilitates a first transfer of an amount of funds from a gaming establishment account and/or a second transfer of an amount of funds associated with a line of credit to the gaming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240346878
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable an operator, such as a member of gaming establishment personnel, to access an electronic gaming machine without any physical identifier associated with the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Matthew Levin, Erik B. Petersen, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20240331495
    Abstract: A system that, responsive to an occurrence of a cashout event at a gaming device, transfers funds from the gaming device to a gaming establishment account and/or to a gaming establishment credit system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12106631
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods relate to directing cashout funds, for example in a casino environment, and in particular to providing incentives for directing cashout funds to a cashless wallet account. An instruction is received by a kiosk device, such as a gaming device, to dispense a first cashout amount. Based on the instruction, a display device of the kiosk device displays a message indicating a request to choose an option of a plurality of options. The options include a first option to receive the first cashout amount at the electronic kiosk device and a second option to receive a second cashout amount different from the first cashout amount in a cashless format. In response to receiving a selection, the respective cashout amount is dispensed in the chosen format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240321054
    Abstract: A system that operates to monitor for a debt settlement event and. responsive to an occurrence of such an event, cause an alert to be provided to gaming establishment personnel to pay off part or all of an amount of debt owed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240312307
    Abstract: A system that utilizes a mobile device to facilitate a first transfer of an amount of funds associated with a line of credit to a gaming establishment account and further to facilitate a second transfer of part or all of such an amount of funds from the gaming establishment account to a gaming device, such as an electronic gaming machine or a gaming table component associated with a gaming establishment gaming table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12094302
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods which utilize sporting event wager virtual tickets in association with placed sporting event wagers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne R. Nelson, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Patent number: 12073686
    Abstract: A system that operates to monitor for a line of credit settlement event and, responsive to an occurrence of such an event, pay off an amount of funds accessed from a gaming establishment credit system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20240265776
    Abstract: A system that utilizes a mobile device and a funding instrument associated with an external funding source to first transfer funds from the external funding source to a gaming establishment account and then, responsive to a completion of the first transfer, automatically transfer funds from the gaming establishment account to an electronic gaming machine and/or a gaming table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240265774
    Abstract: Systems and methods that provide one or more mobile device facilitated non-cash avenues to redeem a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12056983
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize funds accessed from a gaming establishment credit system to provide an overdraft protection feature to one or more gaming establishment accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240257610
    Abstract: A system that tracks the funding source of an amount of funds as the funds are transferred between various accounts or balances of various components of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20240257612
    Abstract: A system that provides zero, one or more benefits to a user in association with maintaining an amount of funds in one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with one or more system components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd, Sina Miri, Dwayne A. Davis, Erik Petersen, Christopher Levin
  • Publication number: 20240249588
    Abstract: Systems and methods that dynamically assign, responsive to different events occurring, the location of an electronic record associated with an amount of funds accessed from a gaming establishment credit system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240249592
    Abstract: Systems and methods that verify an identity of a user in association with a transfer of an amount of funds from a gaming establishment account associated with the user to a gaming table component associated with a gaming establishment gaming table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12039836
    Abstract: A system that, responsive to an occurrence of a cashout event at a gaming device, transfers funds from the gaming device to a gaming establishment account and/or to a gaming establishment credit system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12033467
    Abstract: A system that operates to monitor for a debt settlement event and, responsive to an occurrence of such an event, cause an alert to be provided to gaming establishment personnel to pay off part or all of an amount of debt owed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240212444
    Abstract: A system that enables funds automatically transferred into the system from one or more funding sources in anticipation of such funds being used in association with various system components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20240212426
    Abstract: Technology for managing a player session at a gaming table is disclosed. A table management system receives identifying information of a player seated at the gaming table transmitted by a mobile device associated with the player. The identifying information includes a seating position of the player at the gaming table, the seating position determined by the mobile device through interaction with a locating device placed at the seating position at the gaming table. The table management system generates the player session for the player for playing a wagering game at the gaming table using the identifying information of the player transmitted by the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen, Christopher Levin, Eduardo Meza, Jeffery Shepherd